FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
arstechnica.com
I am just impressed by the idea and execution. Just wow. Too bad he took it too far.
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I am just impressed by the idea and execution. Just wow. Too bad he took it too far.
Definitely an abuse of the system, but I'm struggling to see where criminal law says you can't make a bunch of fake accounts to listen to garbage music.
Fraud is pretty broad and covers most things that deliberately misrepresent reality to take money from someone else.
Yet advertising and billionaires exist. It's not what you do, it's what clique you're part of.
Dont hurt the normies mate!
In agreeing to be paid by music streaming platforms they almost certainly agreed not to do exactly this.
From justice.gov:
This is a ridiculous law, it might as well be called "money fraud". Justice is a bad joke.